Feeling magical this holiday season? Check out our latest paper @GoogleQuantumAI, headlined by Emma Rosenfeld and @CraigGidney, experimentally testing magic state cultivation on Willow.
https://t.co/UPYhRt26J2
|T⟩ so good it’s hard to measure: 0.9999(1), thread below! 🧵
Congratulations @NathanLacroix for winning the APS DQI Best Thesis Award! And congratulations to finalists @AniketMaiti96, Holly Stemp, Konstantin Herb, and Colin Lualdi!
Last month at the 2026 APS Global Physics Summit, two Google Quantum AI researchers were recognized as DQI Best Thesis finalists. Congratulations Nathan Lacroix (Winner) and Aniket Maiti (Finalist) on their work!
Registration is now open for QEC26, to be held this June in sunny Santa Barbara, CA! see the registration page at https://t.co/KMkO866FcI for a link.
Also, the deadline for submissions is next Friday. Make sure to get those in and spread the word to friends and collaborators!
We did some experimental testing of magic state cultivation! https://t.co/x7R66srm0Z
A ~1e-4 end2end infidelity is tricky to measure with tomography, so we checked it vs more cultivation. The full escape stage is too wide for the chip, but we did try ending in the grafted code.
We introduce a new measurement technique, kickback tomography, to quantify errors in logical magic states.
- Cultivation is 40x better than just injection
- Including color code QEC cycles reduces error 100x (they make the circuit distance-3)
Great to see QEC in action!
Feeling magical this holiday season? Check out our latest paper @GoogleQuantumAI, headlined by Emma Rosenfeld and @CraigGidney, experimentally testing magic state cultivation on Willow.
https://t.co/UPYhRt26J2
|T⟩ so good it’s hard to measure: 0.9999(1), thread below! 🧵
Cultivation is a clever protocol introduced last year to projectively measure a color code state along the “T” axis to improve fidelity. Does figure 1 demystify it?
See the theory paper too: https://t.co/d7VEyW0OCP
Communicating with qubits is tricky, they must stay isolated to preserve their state yet still “hear” our signals.
Our researchers are developing control systems that send commands and collect data without disturbing their fragile quantum states → https://t.co/VtwWo5aKSO
Think you need a PhD for a job in quantum computing? Not necessarily, our quantum researchers joined from physics, engineering & even cryogenics. What unites them is curiosity and a drive for excellence. Learn more about Google Quantum AI team here → https://t.co/8wa2XM4ytQ
@Liv_Lanes I wrote it on parental leave. The focus is timing a sequence of steps to try to prolong the first stretch of night sleep. I also put in a nap planner (calculating about wake windows to hit a target bedtime) which was better than sleep-deprived math.
https://t.co/yArarESEay
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